Inflation is a fact of life. At some point, you might need to raise your rates as a freelancer in order to meet your goals. Over time, as you gain more experience, it makes sense to consider raising your rates. Few clients expect you to keep your rates the same forever. As inflation sends prices …
I find that many of my friends and family don’t really “get” the online freelancer thing. And what can I tell them? Since I work online (and sometimes feel as though I live online), I tend to find myself in this happy bubble where people know what I do. I hang around with bloggers on Skype …
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You need to carefully consider your freelance web design rates. Here are a few helpful tips. While I’m not the most experienced web designer (I actually did one paid web design job, long, long ago), I have some web designer friends. And we sometimes talk about how we set freelance rates. I’ve noticed that a …
Setting rates as a freelance graphic designer can be tricky. For some projects, it can be difficult to know how much time it will take. Once, not too long after I finished my journalism degree, I was asked to design a logo. I had taken a graphic design class, and a Flash class, and I …
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Are you doing research for your freelance gig? Here are some considerations as you set your rates. Among the jobs you can do as a freelance professional is research. Freelance research involves finding information about a particular topic and then organizing it in a way that’s useful for clients. Often, freelance research goes hand in …
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Freelance editing takes a lot of…something. I don’t have it. But you might be cut out to be a freelance editor. There are a number of career paths that are compatible with freelancing. It’s possible to land freelance jobs in almost anything related to creativity. One of the most important jobs is that of editor. …
